Walmart Arms New Orleans, Thank You So Much Mr. Walton

Isn't it handy? Walmart doesn't just sell baby formula, jeans and cheap crap from China, they also sell guns. So, when the not-quite-worse-case scenario hits New Orleans, you can snag a gun with ammunition. Handy that the ammo AND the guns are sold in the same big emporium. In a country that takes such good care of its poor and is so very concerned about all the guns on the street and cares so deeply about all the deaths from gunshot, how wise it is to just sell guns in third-tier, discount stores. Now, in N.O., you don't have to buy one, you can just snatch one and why the hell wouldn't you? You're dirt poor, remember, and what the hell else do you have?

And here's something else that is bugging me. All of you poised CNN reporters who are on camera, groomed and cool and NOT in New Orleans, shut the hell up about looting. When you are so desperately poor, hot, hungry, angry, confused and what tiny bit you owned is now lost, AND you're still in a city that has pretty much disappeared AND you're stealing a pair of Nike's, so fucking what...who cares? Who the fuck cares? That's NOT the story.

Besides the horror of these people's lives, the story is what was NOT done before this very predictable tragedy happened. They knew it was gonna happen. It's been written about for decades. What they didn't do was adequately prepare for it because you can't get funds from FEMA until after the fact. Digest that.

More later...I'm just so hopping sad and angry right now. Richest country on earth. Big, powerful superpower. Yeah, right.